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Here is a copy of the preliminary program for the mini-conference
on queering identity, April 12-13.  Please let me know if you have any
questions.

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        A Cultural Studies Mini-Conference

    QUEERING IDENTITY:  THE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS


April 12-13, 1996
Drake University

All events free and open to the public

Sponsored by:
Cultural Studies Program
Center for the Humanities
Women's Studies Program
Multicultural Studies Progam

For further information:
515-271-2158 or js2861r@acad.drake.edu

	How does queer theory enable us to advance a critique of 
identity, to reconceptualize subjectivity and agency?  What are the 
political implications of queering identity in the USA, in the closing 
years of the twentieth century?

Schedule of Events (most held in Cartwright Hall--the Law School):

Friday, April 12

	2:00	Welcome and Introductions		Cartwright 205

	2:15	Elias Farajaje'-Jones			Cartwright 205

			"Decolonizing Identities"

	4:00	Ellen Hart and R. D. Zimmerman	Cartwright 205

			Readings and discussion

	5:30	Dinner break

	8:00	Chrystos					The Mainstay 
								(on campus)
			Reading and discussion

Saturday, April 13

	9:30	Arlene Stein				Cartwright 205

			"Shifting Knowledges, Decentered Identities:  The 
			Transformation of Lesbian/Queer Culture"

	11:15	Mark Christopher			Pharmacy 206

			Alkali, Iowa  screening  and discussion

	12:15 	Lunch break

	2:00	Scott Mendel				Cartwright 205

			"At Risk in the Minoritizing Discourse of Our Own 
			Identities:  Cultural Studies, Identity Politics, and 
			Legibility in the Text of the Body Politic"


	3:45	Wrap-up panel discussion		Cartwright 205
		
			Farajaj^Î-Jones, Chrystos, Stein, Mendel,		
				Christopher, Hart, Zimmerman,

Guest Participants:

	Elias Farajaj^Î-Jones, Associate Professor of History of 
Religions, Howard University Divinity School.  Contributer to Black 
Theology: A Documentary History (1993).  Bisexual activist within 
the African-American community.

	Arlene Stein, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of 
Oregon.  Editor of Sisters, Sexperts, Queers: Beyond Lesbian Nation 
(1993).  Author of Sex and Sensibility: Lesbianism, Feminism and the 
Construction of Identity (forthcoming).  Current research on 
grassroots organizing in rural Oregon communities to resist 
challenges to the rights of gays and immigrants.

	Chrystos, Native American poet and essayist, activist for 
queer rights, First Nations land and treaties rights, and prisoners 
rights.  Author of Not Vanishing (1988), Dream On (1991), In Her I 
Am (1993), and Fugitive Colors (forthcoming).  Her work is collected 
in many anthologies, including Lesbian Culture (1993).

	Scott Mendel, English doctoral candidate, University of 
Chicago.  Former media coordinator of ACT UP/Chicago; member of 
AIDS Foundation of Chicago's Policy and Advocacy Committee.  
Specializing in U.S. lesbian and gay studies and American Yiddish 
literature.

	Mark Christopher, independent filmmaker, New York City.  
Writer-director of The Dead Boys' Club (1993) and Alkali, Iowa 
(1995).  Alkali, Iowa won the award for Best Fiction Short at the 
1995 USA Film Festival.

	Ellen Hart, fiction writer, Minneapolis.  Author of seven 
mystery novels, one of which, A Small Sacrifice (1994), won the 
Lambda Literary Award (best lesbian mystery) and Minnesota Book 
Award (best crime fiction).

	R. D. Zimmerman, fiction writer, Minneapolis.  Author of ten 
mystery novels, six children's books, and short mysteries appearing 
on boxes of Total Cereal.  Deadfall in Berlin was nominated for an 
Edgar Mystery Award.

Conference Committee:

	Joseph Schneider (Cultural Studies Director, Sociology)
	Richard Abel (English), Kim Ports (English), Nancy Reincke 
	(English), Dan Spencer (Religion), Janet Wirth-Cauchon 
	(Sociology), Shane Luitjens, Stephan Paschalides

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From BGLAD@ACAD.DRAKE.EDU Wed Apr 24 1996
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 199	
From: "Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian Alliance of Drake" <BGLAD@ACAD.DRAKE.EDU>
Subject: Drake Un. Cultural Studies Queering Identity Mini-Conference
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